Example sentences of "[adv] after [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the mother-daughter relationship is also significant in respect of whether the Lady enters your life easily , or only after a long struggle . |
| 2 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 3 | Transmission often succeeds only after a long incubation period , which decreases substantially after serial passaging . |
| 4 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 5 | The Pilkington float process , metal skis , xerography , are success stories , but only after a long time period , much effort and many technical difficulties . |
| 6 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 7 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | It occurs word medially between two short vowels , between a long and short vowel , or word finally after a long vowel . |
| 9 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |
| 10 | Notts went ahead when Mike Simpson volleyed home after a long throw-in . |
| 11 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 12 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 13 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 14 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 15 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 16 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 17 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 18 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 19 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 20 | The unkind but graphic association of names with feet and noses and twittering conversation was enough to bring both to mind , and allowed the registrar to greet each student by name , even after a long interval . |
| 21 | I do n't accept dinner invitations and I have a small snack in my hotel room and go to bed immediately after a long flight . |
| 22 | President Vieira on Nov. 6 returned abruptly after a long period abroad , during which time he had received medical treatment and visited the United States and Taiwan . |
| 23 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
| 24 | Then after a long pause she added , ‘ Absolutely nice . |
| 25 | Then after a long while , during which neither of us could escape from her hatred and savagery , she 'd said tiredly , ‘ OK , Annie , we ca n't do it . |
| 26 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 27 | He had reached there late after a long tramp from Ballyjamesduff in the next county . |
| 28 | ‘ It was so untimely , ’ the Commander said passionately after a long silence , ‘ so very untimely . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I 'd lost you , ’ said Lucenzo almost fondly , when they found one another again after a long time . |
| 30 | Susanna Lewis 's very popular book A Machine Knitter 's Guide to Creating Fabrics is available again after a long absence from the bookshelves . |